International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science (ECogS) 2023

OIST Workshop | Website | Main organizer: Tom Froese (Embodied Cognitive Science Unit) | OIST members are welcome to attend all scientific sessions (registration required).

[Public Lecture - Tokyo] The Dawn of Mesoamerica: Food Production, Human Agency, and the Origins of Civilization

Dr. Andrés G. Mejía Ramón (OIST) is a Postdoctoral Researcher, archaeologist, ecologist, and complex systems scientist focusing on the interactions between humans and the environment across deep time. 
Dr. Tom Froese (OIST) is Assistant Profesor and Head of the Unit. is a cognitive scientist with a background in computer science and complex systems. He investigates the interactive basis of life and mind

[Public Lecture - Okinawa] The Dawn of Mesoamerica: Food Production, Human Agency, and the Origins of Civilization

Dr. Andrés G. Mejía Ramón (OIST) will give a preview version of his presentation at the Embassy of Mexico in Tokyo to the OIST community. He is a Postdoctoral Researcher, archaeologist, ecologist, and complex systems scientist focusing on the interactions between humans and the environment across deep time.

Experiences of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

The workshop will take place on March 17th at 14:30 GMT+9 in Lab4, room L4E45 and online via Zoom: https://oist.zoom.us/j/94928028761?pwd=akM1aktLcXhkeG1xUUlGVXV5RFdhQT09

Please, review the workshop program and talks.

Registration is now open!

[Seminar] Is Cardiac Synchronization an aspect of the Shared Body Schema? Learning from expert musicians

Speaker:
Dr. Simon Høffding,
University of Southern Denmark

Abstract:
«In this talk, I firstly go through the notion of the body schema as the possibility of including other objects or even subjects into our own lived body. I present phenomenological interviews with expert musicians that give us reason to believe that a dimension of their shared musical expertise consists in the construction of such a shared body schema, as a robust sense of “we-ness”. Hypothesizing that cardiac synchronization (CS) (also known as heart rate variability synchronization) might instantiate or contribute to a physiological dimension of this we-ness, a recent experiment indeed, shows that expert musicians have significantly higher CS than adepts and that this synchronization is resilient to performative challenges. Thus, I tentatively argue that CS should be considered as indexical of a shared body schema.»

Everybody is welcomed
Today! 15:30, Monday, 13 of March
Room B503 (liminal space between library and supply store (lab 1 and central building))

[Seminar] Martin Biehl: "Interpreting systems as solving POMDPs: a step towards a formal understanding of agency"

Interpreting systems as solving POMDPs: a step towards a formal understanding of agency.

Martin Biehl, senior research scientist at Cross Labs.

[Seminar] Christian Guckelsberger: "Four projects on Intrinsic Motivation, Embodiment, Creativity & Videogames"

Four projects on Intrinsic Motivation, Embodiment, Creativity & Videogames.

Christian Guckelsberger, Computer Scientist, Art Historian and Assistant Professor in Creative Technologies at Aalto University.

[Seminar] Nathaniel Virgo: "What is an agent?"

What is an agent?

Nathaniel Virgo, Associate Professor at Earth-Life Science Insitute (ELSI) in Tokyo.

Guest lecture by Ad Spiers: "Haptic interfaces for navigation"

Dr Ad Spiers is the head of the recently founded Manipulation and Touch Lab of Imperial College London, which investigates various aspects of human and robotic upper limbs. Language: English (no interpretation). Target audience: Everyone at OIST. Freely accessible to all OIST members without registration (also via Zoom).

[Seminar] Prof. Justine Cassell: "Social AI"

Social AI.

Justine Cassell, Dean’s Professor of Language Technologies in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, chair at the PRAIRIE AI Institute in Paris, and director of research at Inria Paris.